Here is part two of the Todd Standing interview with Dr. Jeff Meldrum on Bigfoot North radio.

The two bigfoot researchers discuss some very interesting theories associated with the elusive cryptid and the evidence of its existence. One of the many topics covered in this part of the interview was “Sylvanic” and the bigfoot encounter that Standing’s claims to have had. Many people in and around the bigfoot community have labeled Standing as a hoaxer and much of his work and possible bigfoot evidence has been hotly debated. Meldrum talks about some new analysis of the raw bigfoot footage that was captured by Standing which according to Jeff will be done with help of Bill Munns.

It will be very interesting to see the results of this new analysis that Meldrum and Munns are going to do if things go according to plan. There have been plenty of attempts over the years to breakdown and analyze the Todd Standing bigfoot videos and photos in an effort to either debunk it or prove their legitimacy. Standing has maintained from the start that his claims of having seen and filmed a sasquatch in a remote area of wilderness are legitimate. Check out the “Dr. Meldrum moves closer to Scientific acceptance of Bigfoot” video and get some more information about not only bigfoot but the potential new analysis of the bigfoot videos from Todd Standing.

Here is a great new Bigfoot guide from Dr. Jeff Meldrum called the Sasquatch, Yeti, and other Wildmen of the World Field Guide.

The new guide to Bigfoot and other hominoids was released in June and is sure to be a popular purchase by many in and around the Bigfoot community. Here is an official description of the guide “A field guide to relict hominoids. Most modern humans are transient visitors to the primal forests, whose dark recesses were believed to harbor mysterious creatures, including one more man-like than any other living being.” Meldrum previously produced a pocket sized Sasquatch Field Guide which was very well constructed and a big hit with Bigfoot researchers and enthusiast alike. It was available in print and also in a kindle version on amazon.

The new Jeff Meldrum, Sasquatch, Yeti and Other Wildmen of the World: A Field Guide to Relict Hominoids can also be purchased on amazon here for just offer $7 bucks. It comes in pamphlet form and seems to be very detailed and high quality as would be expected from one of the more known and respected Bigfoot researchers. Here is a more in depth description of what the guide contains and its uses “This guide to Wildmen of the World serves as a companion to the Sasquatch Field Guide, which provides in depth information about tracking and identifying field evidence. This quick reference broadens the scope by distinguishing the various types of relict hominoids around the globe and the trace evidence pointing to their possible existence.” Should be another excellent Bigfoot guide from Meldrum!

An interesting Bigfoot video called scientists weigh in on Bigfoot was posted by Jeff White and then analyzed and broken down by ThinkerThunker has sparked a recent debate.

It showed mainstream scientists from the Motion and Gait Analysis Laboratory at Stanford University taking an indepth look at the Patterson-Gimlin Bigfoot film and weighing in on the Bigfoot phenomenon. ThinkerThunker went on to do a breakdown video of some of the research done by the scientists and had some very interesting thoughts and talking points. The group tried to have a human reproduce the walk and gait of Paddy from the famous Bigfoot footage with some help from the famous Bigfoot researcher and Professor of the Department of Anthropology at Idaho State University Dr Jeff Meldrum. Dr Meldrum is a highly respected voice in and around the Bigfoot community and had this reply to the ThinkerThunker Bigfoot video:

Some good points raised. Seemed overly critical , or perhaps merely naive about how these productions come about. Dr. Rose agreed to one single objective — to determine whether or not an actor could be trained to approximate the joint angles evident in the P-G film subject. She had already taken considerable flak from colleagues for even agreeing to participate in this documentary, and so was rather cautious about what she would say on the record. At one point, as she and I were looking on, while off-camera, she said of the actor “That’s obviously a man-in-a-fursuit.” Then she turned to look again at the looping clip of the PGF projected on the wall and said, “That’s not a man-in-a fursuit.” I said, “Dr. Rose, I agree. Won’t you say that on camera?” She would not. Dr. Gamble was similarly impressed, and we had long discussions over lunch about various aspects of the film and its implications — off-camera. On camera he was open and intrigued, but much more circumspect in his remarks. I can understand their conservatism.

You also have to realize that hours and hours of filming and interviewing are edited down into the brief show you watch on television. The composite graphics were produced by the studio, after the fact. They aren’t always the ones the voice-overs have us appear to be commenting upon. Those who say that I “caved” don’t know me well. I acknowledged that with considerable coaching and effort, an actor could roughly approximate the walk to a greater degree than I would have expected, but that failed to address the issues of limb proportions, shoulder and hip breadths, head proportions, foot anatomy, etc. Not to mention the short comings of the suit itself, which although was a fairly expensive suit, that had appeared on TV commercials, was ridiculously inadequate. Most of that discussion was not included.

The participation by Drs. Rose and Gamble was indeed a significant development, appropriately taking place at Stanford where Edward Muybridge pioneered studies of animal locomotion. But it was a cable TV documentary, with a shoestring budget and tight time schedule, shot in less than one day, and edited down to show length according to the director’s story telling. It was not an in depth analysis carried out for publication in a scientific journal. If you can’t appreciate the significance of that, while acknowledging the caveats of those circumstances, then you don’t understand the position academics find themselves in, endeavoring to further serious consideration by mainstream science, since that’s what we do. If that is of no interest to you, then those of you who “know” can sit around the campfire, or computer screen, and share your testimonials, but to what end criticize and disparage the “PhDs”, whose professional objectives and structures may be a bit different than yours?

Bigfoot researcher Christopher Noel has recently recorded what he believes are sounds made by Bigfoot. He has several hours of wood knocks and other noises that may have been made by the elusive cryptid.

He believes this is more Bigfoot evidence and that it also supports a theory he has of autistic behavior from these creatures. Noel theory that he calls “The Sasquatch Savant Theory” is that Bigfoot has some sort of mental disorder which is similar to autism. This theory has definitely been a topic of debate and has many skeptics, although Noel’s theory is quite interesting. He features some of the Bigfoot sounds in the following Bigfoot video.

Noel has been doing some great work and has collected some interesting pieces of possible Bigfoot proof in the last few years. It’s still unclear as to his overall theory gaining any momentum with those in and around the Bigfoot community, but he hasn’t let it effect his research either way. Hopefully we will not only get more information from Noel as his search for proof of Bigfoot continues, but perhaps a great Bigfoot sighting 2016!

Bigfoot population is a topic of debate of late in and around the Bigfoot community with some numbers showing a decreasing in sightings and reports over last few years.

Some of the top Bigfoot researchers formed a panel at the Sasquatch Summit and took on the question of current Bigfoot population. Included in the panel was Dr Jeff Meldrum, Todd Standings, Derek Randles, and many others.

There seem to be varying opinions on the subject through out the panel and some very interesting answers and information is provided. With Bigfoot sightings down over the last couple years including Bigfoot Sightings 2015 it seems to be a very valid question. Here is a video from the summit in which the debate takes place for you to watch for yourself and see which researchers you agree and don’t agree with.